Completed attaching the rudder counterbalance weight and riveting the skin to the upper two ribs.  The only thing left to do is to roll the leading edge skins, but I will wait until I get a tech inspection so that he can look inside the rudder.

Riveted rear spar to shear clips skins and ribs.

riveted rudder trailing edge

Prosealed trailing edge and cleco’d it together.  Riveted rudder stiffeners to shear clips and riveted bottom rib to skin.  Weighted the trailing edge down  and left it to cure.

finished corrosion prevention for all rudder parts.  began final assembly of rudder and riveted all parts up to step 1 on page 7-9.  Used a trick from the rv-10 list to get the trailing edge rivet into the bottom rib.  The trick is to use a chisel on the shop end of the rivet and bang on the chisel with the rivet gun.  Makes a decent shop head, but the rivet didnt quite seat in the dimple.  Came out okay though.

Finished dimpling skins and applied corrosion protection to the skins, rear spar, and various other parts.

Used the new (pneu) rivet squeezer to dimple all of the rudder parts and the parts of the skin that I could reach.  Also, countersunk the trailing edge.  

disassembled and deburred the rudder components, including skins. countersunk trailing edge.